The end of another era

And another era had passed. My assignment for a local dutch government is coming to an end tommorrow. From the beginning of June till now, I worked there as a project employee, migrating serveral firewalls. All migrations were succesful and with all handwork included, we are still surprised about the amount of fallout it generated. I think I did a great job there.

So I’ll be starting the new year on a different location, at the Snow HQ first and then seeking out for a new assignment. If you are aware of an assignment that should / would fit me, please contact me so that Snow and I can arrange the talks.

That said; I learned a lot at this location and enjoyed working with the people there. Together we got a positive spin for the end-customer. Thanks for that guys!

Onwards to the next assignment!

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Christmas 2008

This year Christmas was a bit different then previous years. Denise and I were totally into going away for the days, so we planned a trip to Belgium to celebrate christmas there with the three of us. We found a nice house near Spa where we spend a week together (well almost a week). It was a major success for the three of us. We had a very relaxing time and did the things that we do enjoy during those times. This worked out very well! Now just a few weeks till we get the keys to our house :-)

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FreeBSD 7.1 release close!

After some waiting, the FreeBSD team will release the 7.1 version shortly. There were a few showstoppers here and there, a security advisory that popped up and needed attention, but we all overcame that and are ready to do the release. Ofcourse that isn’t being released as we speak, but it’s -very- soon now. 7.1 will kick 2009’s ass to begin with. Then followed by a stunning 8.0-release later that year. It promises to be a very good year for us at the FreeBSD development teams, but also for the users ofcourse!.

Please hold your breath and say “ooeeeee ahhhhh” when the release is there!

Enjoy!

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Migration part one finished

Today we celebrated one of the migrations that I am doing for the Telecom company. Last weekend we migrated the firewalls and things seemed to went smoothly. Ofcourse like with all changes, we forgot some things, and some things were against us, but adding things up, we did a terrific job on delivering the first part of the migration! Collegue’s: Great work

Onwards to the next series of migrations that are due around January before we start moving things around :-) exciting times ahead.

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Presenting for FreeBSD

Yesterday gave I a talk for FreeBSD, my first ever for FreeBSD. The aim and goal was to inform people how “easy” you can become an official member of the FreeBSD development team. Okay it costs time to invest, but you can help a very decent community :-)

Just before the presentation, while preparing mentally for the presentation. I noticed by best friend coming in (Rik! thanks for being there) but even more surprises were around the corner. My father also found the way to Utrecht and he visited my presentation, which was very cool to see. The presentation for mine was a bit over his head, but he liked my presentation :-) . Sadly he and Rik needed to go immediatly after the presentation, but it was good to see them both! Thanks Dad and Rik!

The presentation was in dutch and the feedback that I got was positive! I had some points for improval but overall it was nice. You can see the presentation below (warning, typo’s and dutch language is included);

You can find it here, or via the download section here

Together with Wim vd Putte, Cor Hilbrink and Paul Schenkeveld I filled the chairs for the next meetup in this style. We have a few ideas, and I will try my best with the guys to make it happen again. Thanks to the NLLGG Linux Community for letting us share the resources. Marcel / Fabrice thanks a lot!

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Updated to wordpress 2.7

So I updated to wordpress 2.7 moments ago, sadly I needed to let go of my leopard-admin skin because that had not been updated yet. But it shows nice as is as well. Ofcourse I tested it already a bit, so nothing new. But it’s updated :-)

 

House bought!

Recently I wrote that we were looking for an house and that we found one. Last saturday we signed the contract, and till today we can ‘cancel’ our deal. We are not going to do that, so in a little we will be owners of a nice large house, where we are going to live together finally :-)

Hurray!

 
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